DPM 2007 Publish via RDP

Have been on the Managing Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 course at QA in London for the last week.

One of the annoyances is that in DPM 2007 and 2010 you cannot install the GUI onto your own workstation and as such you'll have to always connect to the server to run the software (unless you are a Powershell Guru).

David Allen has published how to conenct using RDP and remote app but his is shwoing how to do it via 2008 TS, if you are on 2003 try the following:

• On your DPM server right click My Computer > Properties > Remote.
• Click Enable Remote Desktop and select the users you want to have access.
• On the client computer Start > Run > mstsc > OK
• Click the Programs tab
• Tick Start the following program on connection
• Program path and file name is:

c:\Windows\System32\mmc.exe "c:\program files\microsoft dpm\dpm\bin\microsoft system center data protection manager 2007.msc"

(note the speech marks around the second part).

• Change the local resources that you want (screen size/colour depth etc)
• Then save the resulting RDP file into your start menu.

And as Gorden Ramsey would say:
DONE

ISA change from Edge Firewall to 3 Leg

So this is one of the things that I've had to work on over the last few days.

The easiest way is to follow the infomation from Bret Fisher's Blog - fishbrains

Some gotchas though are:

• VPN Configuration gets blown away, make a note (print screen is your friend) and reapply after.
• The bitmap image of the network will be wrong. To fix this in the XML before importing search for msFPCNetworkTemplate and amend the next GUID from "{e826736f-262a-47af-8871-980561676073}" to "{9be6f18a-57ad-4cea-b924-2cfedfef3799}"
  
  The full list of template GUIDS are:
  EDGE "{e826736f-262a-47af-8871-980561676073}"
  THREE LEG "{9be6f18a-57ad-4cea-b924-2cfedfef3799}"
  FRONT FIREWALL "{2EF25ED2-C029-4a5b-B274-590B9953F2F5}"
  BACK FIREWALL"{1C02D67F-7CF6-429c-9B46-B7805FCCED41}"
  SINGLE NIC "{2C02D67F-7CF6-429c-9B46-B7805FCCED42}"
  
  

Outlook Web Access Query Strings

Having some fun with OWA links at the moment to embed them into Sharepoint Services (the free one!)

Some Calendars in Public Folders need to be pushed to the Intranet, thought I'd just drill down to the URL and copy over.

In OWA right click the Public Folder Calendar and select Open in New Window.

URL of opened Calendar is :

https://ExchangeServerName/owa/?ae=Folder&t=IPF.Appointment&id=PSF.LgAAAAAaRHOQqmYRzZvIAKoAL8RaAwBkfUVX3QErSbWC4zOBPd2lAAAAAGTOAAAC

This URL is of no use as its linked to my login so wont display for all users.

The actual URL needed is :

https://ExchangeServerName/owa/?cmd=contents&module=publicfolders&f=PublicFolderName/PublicFolderCalendarName&part=1&view=daily

Notice that at the end of the URL the view=daily In OWA you can have the following query strings:

Day = daily , Work Week = ?????? , Week = Weekly , Month = Monthly

If anyone can tell me what the Work Week one is I'll be very grateful!

Apple Jokes

Now I can laugh at these as I now own an Apple product (the amazing iPhone) but made me smile just the same.

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"Q: How many Apple programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: Only one, but why bother ? Your light socket will just be obsolete in six months anyway.

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Q: How many Apple and PC fanboys does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: An infinite number: nothing useful gets done while they're arguing. Finally a disgusted generic computer user (who will use any type that is in front of him) gets up and changes the bulb, elbowing the participants aside. The size of the crowd arguing seems to be a function of time, although whether or not the function is exponential is not known.

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How many Mac owners does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Three: One to change the bulb, one to copyright the method for changing the bulb, and one to call in the lawyers on anyone who infringes on the "look and feel" of the bulb changing method."

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Flu Jab

So just had my seasonal flu jab at work. Slightly embarrassing as a too tight shirt arm required me to disrobe to the waist to enable me to be pricked. A slightly surreal moment being in the conference room semi naked…..

Test from the iPhone

Let's see how this works


-- Posted from my iPhone

Switch on

Josef has had his switch on, we went for the Cochlear Nucleus 5 which was the first time that Addenbrooke's had used. Our little man is a trailblazer! This is just a test post really to see if I've got all the links to Twitter sorted out.

This is also due to Lesley at Addenbrooke's asking if I had a blog to keep track of Josef's progress - so just for her there will be posts with the tag "Progress"

Future posts:

• Exchange 2007 Dynamic Distribution list bug
• Cochlear Unboxing Experience
• Deaf journey (up to date!)
• iPhone stroking (!)
• Hospital car parking
• Thank you NHS